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May 29, 2023

Poetry Paweł Markiewicz

Gods and Godesses

Achilles disarms the ballad. Adonis draws composition. Athena entices the beat. Artemis lures a creation. Augeas writes the meek epic. Chronos seduces the light ode. Centaur beguiles dreams-lyric. Demeter gratifies the right time. Erato charms the poetry.…

May 27, 2023

Science Fiction Stories Daniel P. Douglas

A Course Toward Hope

Like countless times before, Braemore took to the smoky skies in his camo quadpod with another load of food and meds, all of which awaited a warm welcome in the camps west of the big river. He tapped his throttle pad with a gloved forefinger until it reached…

May 27, 2023

Flash Fiction Paweł Markiewicz

The Druid

In a Druid´s soul: gold of rainbow. A druid wanted to go into a forest and pick some fungi, to cook a magic super decoction from them. In the Druid´s soul: the Golden Fleece. He gathered some mushrooms such as the red-capped scaber stalks-fungi, a boletus…

May 27, 2023

General Stories Emanuel Diaz

Azgōn Unðá Blōðan

Amid a world brimming with clamor and chaos, Ivar Gunhild remained an enigma unto himself. A man perpetually shrouded in the veil of introversion, he navigated life with trepidation, his spirit burdened by an innate fragility. Fear seemed to be his constant…

May 25, 2023

Flash Fiction Frank Talaber

The Eyes Don't Lie

The bell jingled above the screen entrance door of the twenty-four hour Esso truck stop alerting the three of us sitting there that someone had entered. It was around two am, he was muscular, partly unshaven, smokes hung from his jean jacket waiting to be…

May 25, 2023

Poetry Paweł Markiewicz

The Responsive Awakening Of Springtide

The springtime wakes up in may glory and dreams in May-tender homeland O! Dreamy moony spring immortalize the enchantment of the Naiad forever! the pensiveness of a feather from crows you are black such a muse-like falchion thinker with many oboli I listen to…

May 25, 2023

General Stories Frank Talaber

Kodak Moments In Rose

I’d agreed to clean out some of dad’s stuff after he passed away. As I looked through his college journals, a picture fluttered free and fell to the floor. A black and white photo of a young woman leaning against a Harley. Black stiletto leather boots rose…

May 25, 2023

Science Fiction Stories Alyssa Gonzalez

Movement

“Don’t you know it’s rude to turn up in a woman’s bedroom uninvited?” The visitors quivered. It was hard to read that as an expression, taking place as it did on masses of slightly wet tentacles that occasionally flicked, waved, and rubbed against each other.…

May 25, 2023

General Stories Armita KH

Black Like Golden

In the maddening dark depths of the ocean, under a small boulder, lived a lonely little fish. As long as he could remember, his entire life had been spent under the same boulder .Sometimes when he opened his eyes, boredom and loneliness forced him to take a…

May 24, 2023

Romance Stories Stephanie Dolan

The Poop Deck

Sitting in the too-warm classroom, I drummed my fingers on the desk. Staring out the window, my vision clouded. I didn’t really see anything aside from the far-off horizon-line of the ocean. I thought I could almost hear the surf rolling in as I focused on…

May 21, 2023

General Stories George Primov

The Customer is Always Right, Right???

The dreadful phone rings, jolting me like a vicious Taser and its high-pitched tone drills straight through my head. I have exactly 5 seconds before it rings a second time and this is when the soulless mainframe in the bowels of a nondescript, huge…

May 21, 2023

Flash Fiction George Primov

Nia

Nobody at the ward knew where she came from, or if that was her real name. She appeared one hot May morning from nowhere, barely dragging her exhausted feet on the scorching asphalt, rib cage protruding in the air, tail hanging loosely between hind legs,…